Any way to crop to a specific size/format?

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Norm Dresner
Jul 16, 2005
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I’d like to be able to crop, for example, a picture to fit a, say, 8×10 format. Is there any way to do the cropping/selecting that keeps the ratio of the long and short sides of the rectangle constant?

TIA
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Bj
Jul 16, 2005
If I understand you right then this shouldn’t be a problem. Use the Crop-Tool and put the length and the heighth of the outcoming image in. You can choose the resolution of the new picture too. Then you can select with the mouse the range in the image the outcoming image should cover. Photoshop automaticly creates a new picture with a double mouseclick. In the Crop-Options the picture-size of 8×10 format with 300 dpi is even adjusted for a quicker use.

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johnboy
Jul 16, 2005
"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
I’d like to be able to crop, for example, a picture to fit a, say, 8×10 format.

File – automate – fit image
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Bill Hilton
Jul 16, 2005
Norm Dresner writes …

Is there any way to do the cropping/selecting that keeps the ratio of the long and short sides of the rectangle constant?

In addition to the wonderful replies you’ve already received, you can select the ye olde Rectangular Marquee tool (upper left in the Tool box), set ‘feather’ to 0 and in the ‘style’ drop down menu pick ‘fixed aspect ratio’ and then set the width and height accordingly. This creates a selection … to crop you’d do Image > Crop
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Norm Dresner
Jul 17, 2005
"Bill Hilton" wrote in message
Norm Dresner writes …

Is there any way to do the cropping/selecting that keeps the ratio of the long and short sides of the rectangle constant?

In addition to the wonderful replies you’ve already received, you can select the ye olde Rectangular Marquee tool (upper left in the Tool box), set ‘feather’ to 0 and in the ‘style’ drop down menu pick ‘fixed aspect ratio’ and then set the width and height accordingly. This creates a selection … to crop you’d do Image > Crop
Yeah, that sounds like the ticket.

BUT … how do you (or more properly, I) learn about such "tricks?" I hate to have to keep asking how to do every little thing each time something new comes up.

Is there a good book to read? I’m by no means a raw beginner in Photoshop — I’ve been hacking up pictures for about 2 years now — but I’ve had no formal training in the program. I also don’t want a book that spends a lot of time telling me what an image is, or how to import photographs, or just plain insult my intelligence. But I definitely need something more "organized" than a "Tips & Tricks" book. I also hate books that try to teach general procedures just by detailing the steps to a particular task. I think what I want is a book that tells me how to use (I hope this isn’t incredibly excessive) each and every tool and explains how they work.

TIA
Norm
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Dave
Jul 17, 2005
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:44:10 GMT, "Norm Dresner" wrote:

Is there a good book to read? I’m by no means a raw beginner in Photoshop — I’ve been hacking up pictures for about 2 years now — but I’ve had no formal training in the program. I also don’t want a book that spends a lot of time telling me what an image is, or how to import photographs, or just plain insult my intelligence. But I definitely need something more "organized" than a "Tips & Tricks" book. I also hate books that try to teach general procedures just by detailing the steps to a particular task. I think what I want is a book that tells me how to use (I hope this isn’t incredibly excessive) each and every tool and explains how they work.
TIA
Norm

funny queation you ask; whether there is a good book. Of course there is many good books, and you know it, so rather change your words to something like ‘what do you suggest as reading material’.

Well, I bought a few books, undermore ‘How to do anything with Photoshop CS’ by Colin Smith, and a good book it is; but I learn much more by reading newsgroups (this one specific), using my search machine to find tutorials, AND spending quite a lot of money on magazines (my favourite is Digital PhotoEffects) wich is imported and quite expensive where I live.

Furthermore, I have’nt got a full of myself attitude by
stating what kind of books I hate and what they must not tell me. I know less then they do, so I keep my place.

Get of your platform and come down to earth and you will learn. Otherwise rather use something like Windows Paint.

Dave
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Bill Hilton
Jul 17, 2005
Norm asks …

how do you (or more properly, I) learn about such "tricks?" … Is there a good book to read?

The book I learned the most from is "Photoshop Artistry: A Master Class for Photographers, Artists etc" by Haynes & Crumpler. Has a CD with the lesson images on it and goes thru things step by step.

I think what I want is a book that tells me how to use (I hope this isn’t incredibly excessive) each and every tool and explains how they work.

Personally I think this is the *wrong* approach, because Photoshop is many things to many different users. You don’t need to know "each and every tool" when you’re starting out, you just need to know the ones that are relevant to your particular task and workflow. In other words, someone doing digital photography and printing to inkjets (like many of us) has different needs than someone like Tacit or Dan Margulis who work mainly with CMYK prepress (or more accurately, they know a lot of things that *we* don’t really need to know early on), which is different than someone who needs to know all the web tools and ImageReady, which is different than someone mostly drawing, painting or doing line art, and on and on.

Photoshop is so big that you first need to learn the subset of tools specific to your needs, I feel. The "Artistry" book was written mainly for photographers (as are more recent books by Martin Evening, Scott Kilby and several others that will also do the job) and photographers will profit more from a book like this than from a more general book.

Bill
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Hecate
Jul 17, 2005
On 17 Jul 2005 11:46:29 -0700, "Bill Hilton"
wrote:

Norm asks …

how do you (or more properly, I) learn about such "tricks?" … Is there a good book to read?

The book I learned the most from is "Photoshop Artistry: A Master Class for Photographers, Artists etc" by Haynes & Crumpler. Has a CD with the lesson images on it and goes thru things step by step.
I’ll second the Photoshop Artistry and add the following:

Adobe Photoshop for Photographers
Professional Photoshop
Photoshop Restoration & Retouching

None of the book go through every single tool and tell you what to do, but all improve your working and you technical ability. Nothing is going to improve your creative ability but yourself 🙂

To my knowledge the only book that goes through every tool is the Photoshop manual or the Photoshop Bible (the manual tarted up with more words and primarily aimed at those who don’t buy their software <g>).

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Nice_Out
Aug 3, 2005
"DD" wrote in message
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:44:10 GMT, "Norm Dresner" wrote:

Is there a good book to read? <snip>

<snip> AND spending quite a lot of
money on magazines (my favourite is Digital PhotoEffects)
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That’s good you brought that up. I always forget about mag’s. I’ve self-taught other software and am a novice to PS. Sometimes all I need to know is WHAT it can do and I can usually find out HOW. Mag’s are good for that. I’ll keep an eye out for the one you mentioned as your fav.

Cheers.

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